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Urban–rural disparities of child health and nutritional status in China from 1989 to 2006 2013

نویسندگان :

Hong Liu , Hai Fang  , Zhong Zhao

چکیده : 

This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China’s child health and nutritional status

using the China Health and Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate

degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural children in China as

well as how such disparities have changed during the period 1989–2006. The results show

that on average urban children have 0.29 higher height-for-age z-scores and 0.19 greater

weight-for-age z-scores than rural children. Urban children are approximately 40% less

likely to be stunted (; p < 0.01) or underweight (; p < 0.05) during the

period 1989–2006. We also find that the urban–rural health and nutritional disparities

have been declining significantly from 1989 to 2006. Both urban and rural children have

increased consumption of high protein and fat foods from 1989 to 2006, but the urban–

rural difference decreased over time. Moreover, the urban–rural gap in child preventive

health care access was also reduced during this period.

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